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v No. 551,644 Patented Dec. 17,1895.

WITNESSES TnoMAs o. MoPHERsoN, BEAVER EALLs, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE w. MILLER, OF ROCHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551 ,644, dated December 17, 1895.

Application filed February 20, 1895. $erial No, 539,079. (No model.)

To Ml whom it may concern:

Be it known that LTHOMAs O. MCPHERSON, of Beaver Falls; in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mats,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying wire, bent or crimped so as to form a succession of Us opening alternately on opposite sides. These sections are fitted together in parallel position, as shown in Fig. 1, the bases of the Us on one section fitting somewhat within the mouths of the Us in the adjacent sections, and are connected flexibly by crossrods or wires 3, which pass through the sections adjacent to the bases of the Us, and may be clinched or upset at the ends, though I prefer to hold the rods by turning in their ends through perforations in the marginal portion of the strips and clinching them as at on the interior of the section. At the ends of the mat there are preferably marginal strips l, having shallow U shaped portions also secured by cross-rods 3 and giving to the mat a finished unbroken end margin or border. The mat thus constituted is conveniently pliable, for the rods 3 serve as hinges for the sections. It is the same in construe tion on both sides, and is therefore reversible. The foot may be scraped on the mat in either direction without slipping.

The advantages of my invention will be appreciated by those skilled in the art.

WVithin the scope of my invention as defined in the claims, modifications in the construction and form of the parts may be made, since What I claim is A mat composed of fiat strips of metal bent to form a succession of U s opening alternately on opposite sides, these strips being fitted together in parallel position, the bases of the Us of one strip entering somewhat within the mouths of the Us in the adjacent sections and flexibly connected by cross-rods, the mat being reversible and flexible in both directions substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

THOMAS C. MOPHERSON.

WVitnesses:

LoUIs BRELSTEIN. S. M. I'IERVEY. 

